Hiccups at a bad time

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sanomaton

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How come holding breath helps for hiccups? If I try to hold my breath when I have hiccups it just gets worse. :( I usually drink some water if I want it to stop or let the hiccups just come because they sound funny when I get them and I think it's cool to confuse the people around me, "What the heck was that sound just now?" :p
 

DemonicVixen

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ace_of_something said:
ThePeiceOfEden said:
well about hiccups at a bad time, I had em at a funeral ._.
That depends on how much you liked the departed in question or more importantly if they had a good sense of humor.
Just to go off subject here and answer these quotes...
My mum wishes to be burried with one of those toys that do not stop laughing (see the film Toys for more details). I can imagine sitting in a silent church and all you can hear is laughing coming from inside the coffin. Of course she wishes to be cremated to the toy wil eventually shut up with a squeal. How nice is that? I think it is freaky.
 

ace_of_something

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lambi89 said:
Froobyx said:
I don't get hiccup fits often.

I get random squeaky ones every so often :D
Finally! Someone other than me who has squeaky hiccups.

It's just so damn annoying when they suddenly come. I almost always get laughed at when I get a squeaky hiccup:(
I believe the affliction you two share is called 'being a girl'
 

Banana Phone Man

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The simplest way I have found is to get a glass of water (as large a possible) then drink it in one go and burp as much as you can. Seems to work very well with me and a lot of my friends that I have told them the same.

The onlyt other thing that works is to forget about them. This is realy hard because they are so annoying. Try playing a good game watching good TV or read a good book. I read somewhere that a scientist discovered that we have hiccups because our brain tells our lungs to do it. So if we preoccupy the brain the hiccups should in theroy stop. Scientists have to much time.
 

Lambi

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I always find it funny that, when I'm hiccuping, I always want it to just go away, but when it's gone I kind of miss it.

Bye, bye, hiccup, I'll miss you...until the next one comes :)
 

Xbowhyena

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Pull in air and hold it in your lungs for as long as you can (like you do if you are using an inhaler, if you ever have) Exhale, and voila, hiccups are gone. There are many ways to cure hiccups; they all work as long as in some way they hold your diaphragm in place for 20-30 seconds
 

The Cheezy One

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walking along in the dark in silence with a pretty girl i like, then i just kill the mood by going "wa-hic" really loudly :) fond memories
OT: just try not to think about them, youll notice theyve gone away
 

lwm3398

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"Just a spoonful of peanut butter makes the hiccups disappear."

But so long as you don't have a headache at the time of hiccups, they're pretty tolerable. I can usually deal with them.

Edit: But at your time, without peanut butter or much time, and with the need to be intimidating, I'd get some water, plug your ears and nose, drink, and they're gone. God only knows why, but that works.
 

Supreme Unleaded

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Drink Gallons of water as fast as possible only taking breaths when neccacary. Thats what is do.

But yeah i got a detention for having hiccups during the moment of silence for 9/11, the thing is on the 10th hiccup i laughed a bit because i found it ironic that i couldnt stop making noise during the moment of silence. The teacher though i laughed at the dead people and gave me a detention. And this is after i told him that i witnessed the plane hit the twin towers and saw some people fall out of the buildings. That just got him more angry because he though i was joking. prick.
 

Danny Ocean

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ace_of_something said:
I have the Hiccups. I know there is technically 'no cure' so I'm just waiting for them to go away.
Everyone knows someone who swears by some such wacky cure for the hiccups. Give me one you know of. Or make one up that sounds plausable. You can also tell us about bad timing you've had with hiccups.

I am a detective and am waiting for someone I need to interview given the nature of the person coming I might need to be a little intimidating.
This is difficult with the hiccups.
Get a fizzy drink. I use coke. Chug a whole can/glass of it, or however much you can bear before your eyes start watering. It should make you burp, et voila, goodbye hiccups.
Just gotta burp!
Never failed for me!
 

afaceforradio

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Holding my breath or swallowing alot. Anything that will prevent your diaphragm from being so spasmodic should do the trick, perhaps controlled breathing?
 
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I just push my arms into my stomach works 90% of the time.
Bad time i had them was in a school test, it was an important one and i was sitting there annoying the surrounding people.

I just realized this was my 100th post! yay!
 

Raven's Nest

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Just imagine if Martin Luther King got the hiccups when delivering his I Have A Dream speech. Or if Neil Armstrong got them as he addressed the universe in 1969...

These would be very inoppertune moments...